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Can IIS be set up to take advantage of new massively multi-core GPU's to provide additional thread for maximum concurrency?
My thought is that with technology like the AMD Fusion would it be possible ...

I've purchased a VPS for the sake of dev work, and had wished to install NetBSD under the Xen DomU guest. Unfortunately it is stated that this will work, however will not support SMP.
Does this mean ...

One of our dedicated machines we use for hosting in London has exceeded the CPU usage, so I contacted the datacenter last week for a quote on an upgrade. We are hosting game servers, and most of these ...

Not sure if this has been asked, can't find any existing questions. Link me if they exist :)
When looking for a VPS, some hosting providers offer X amount of Mhz, while other hosts offer X amount of ...

I have a web application that when runs on windows 2008 r2 data center edition and when the server is configured with a single core processor consumes 13 mb ram, when configured to run on dual core ...

I have a small compact PHP script that monitors a beanstalk message queue on a CentOS 5 server. When it gets a message, it starts to undertake a particular action and once complete, goes back to the ...

I have a Windows Server 2008 machine running in VirtualBox. On initial installation, only one processor was made available, but now I want to run it as a multiprocessor machine.
I have made all four ...

Our department has $16k to buy computer hardware for high performance computation. The purpose is to do simulation and data analysis using multithreaded applications written with MPI or GridGain, so ...

I have some aging Core 2 Duo systems in need of an upgrade. The motherboard combinations are varied so I'm wondering, in a broad sense, are the Core 2 Duo procs interchangeable for Core 2 Quads or do ...

I know that after running top, I can press '1' and get a list of the CPUs with their utilization percentages. I suspect I can do this in batch mode too with the -b option, but I don't know how, and I ...

I've got a high-spec (multicore, RAID) server running MS SQL 2008, with several databases on it. I have a low throughput process that periodically needs a small amount of information from one of the ...

Windows server software versions, vary in how many CPU sockets that they support. So if you have a normal server with 4 CPU sockets. If each CPU is a quad core (belive there is talk of 6 or 12 core) ...

I have inherited a Xen setup. The dom0 and domU's are all linux. dom0 has 8 cores (or CPUs, I'm not sure). We want to run more stuff on one domU. I want to make it a multicore CPU, ie so that the domU ...

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I've had a problem on my server since I migrated one of my VM's from Windows 2008 Server to Windows 7 (ultimate): though I've assigned four cores to the VM and it even seems to see them, it seems ...

HI folks,
I've a SQL Server 2005 system, with 4 cpus in it each with 4 cores. It's currently mainly utilising just 4 cores, ie 4 hover around 90% utilisation at peak and the others closer to 30%. I'm ...

I'm considering a hardware upgrade from AMD Opteron 1216 to a Core i7 920 or Core i7 860. I want to know if Hardware Virtualization (VT-X) is supported? I found the spec sheets online which say yes. ...

Is it possible to disable CPU (Intel) cores in BIOS, and if yes what HP/DELL (others?) 1U/2U servers would allow this?
It is becoming difficult to find new server hardware with dual core CPUs, most ...

We have severe performance issues on an ESX client, but from where I am I cannot directly view the server configuration, yet I want to find out whether they set it up correctly.
Running CPU-Z shows ...

We're running RH AS 64-bit 4.6 and for some reason after installing a Hitachi SAN driver, the kernal only recognizes 1 cpu of the 8 (4 dual core Opterons). This server hosts an Oracle 9i database, so ...

If I plan to run eight applications on an eight core machine and expect all applications to utilise 100% cpu, will the OS "get enough time" for its own tasks or should I instead run seven applications ...

Confusion reigns about licensing, with the No. of processors that can be engaged by various versions of 2003/ 2008 server. Now that we have 6 core AMDs and future 8 core Intels, I wonder if hardware ...